Posted on 12/29/2011 9:10:10 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
WASHINGTON — Air Force One had just landed in Manchester, N.H., on a brisk Tuesday morning last month when President Obama made an admission to Valerie B. Jarrett, his close friend and senior adviser.
“I just called Reggie,” Mr. Obama said. It was his first domestic trip without Reggie Love, the former Duke University basketball player who had been his constant companion and presidential “body man” until he left in November to study for his M.B.A. full time. “I miss him,” the president confessed.
More noteworthy than Mr. Obama’s spending the short flight calling his longtime aide is what he did not do: schmooze with Washington politicians. No one from the New Hampshire Congressional delegation traveled with Mr. Obama on the plane, a perk that presidents often offer to lawmakers to foster good will.
Mr. Obama, in general, does not go out of his way to play the glad-handing, ego-stroking presidential role. While he does sometimes offer a ride on Air Force One to a senator or member of Congress, more often than not, he keeps Congress and official Washington at arm’s length, spending his down time with a small — and shrinking — inner circle of aides and old friends.
He typically golfs with a trio of mid- to low-level staff members little known outside the West Wing. He does not spend much time at Camp David, the retreat other presidents have used to woo Washington. His social life runs toward evenings playing Taboo with old friends and their families, Wii video games with his wife and daughters or basketball with Robert Wolf, a banker and the rare new best friend Mr. Obama has acquired since entering politics. He vacations with friends from Chicago on Martha’s Vineyard in August and in Hawaii at Christmas.
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beard
He plainly does not like people, but people keep him on a pedestal and find him “personally likable.” Go figure. He is the coldest, most uncharming person elected POTUS in my lifetime.
I read it through carefully. I can’t make my mind up if it’s carefully couched criticism of the One or a worshipful semi-whitewash.
Maybe it’s a gentle chiding of the Great One? In the hope that he well take their advice to come down off his pedastal and engage?
I don't buy the "likable" crap with him for one second. He is the most unlikable POS ever to occupy that office. I can't stand to listen to him speak, esp with his nose stuck up in the air like Mussolini.
Don’t forget lazy and arrogant. He seems to refuse to believe that a politician has to actually sell his program and persuade people to vote for it. He really doesn’t believe the laws of political physics apply to him.
When you look closely, you realize he has never really “done” anything in his brief political career. Everything has been done for him, from that senior colleague in the IL state senate, who appended his name as co-sponsor to bills he had nothing to do with; to his voting “present” on anything remotely controversial in the IL legislature; right up to letting the Dems cobble together Obamacare for him without his participation.
If it wasn’t for a totally sycophantic media, this joker would be living in the cellar of the White House by now.
“I just called Reggie,” “I miss him”
Anybody want to touch that one with a ten foot pole? LOL!!
Disgusting. The NYT managed once again to compliment BHO on being “above the fray”, superior and appealing to the (voting) masses.
Later in the article, the term “grip and grin” is used...appropriate for a story which starts out with Reggie.
It’s generally known that people will often lie to polls, even blind phone ones, when race is a factor. I think only those on the Left “like him”, and those numbers are dwindling.
I am sure he misses Reggie much more than he does Michelle who he sends on alone in her own plane.
From the Old Ghey Lady, that's practially an admission, isn't it?
(Hint: how many stories have you ever read of Reagan, Bush, Ford, or Nixon where he sighs that he "misses" someone who bears a striking resemblance to a boy-toy?)
Cheers!
He spends his evenings playing Taboo and Wii? Seriously? I get the concept of family time - but...with a nation in crisis, a president goes home and plays games at night...He might want to keep this piece of information under wraps.
Bunker mentality. I bet he’s on drugs - probably a mixture of doc meds and do it yourself drugs. He’s a psychotic homosexual creep.
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